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- she/her - 26 - sapphic aro/ace - - soup afficionado and bigot hater - minors please dni i’ll have to block you and it’ll be awkward for both of us this is an untagged nightmare blog, but it’s mostly vtm(b), tlt, and bg3 with the rest of my interests sprinkled throughout :)

[theunfairfolk]

the spirit is unwilling and the flesh it feels not so good also

[lighthouseweeper]

People go crazy over indirect kissing, but when a vampire licks another vampires blood off a glass and basically has an orgasm at the bar people are like “why doesn’t this show have sex in it?”. That was indirect sex. Lestat put himself inside of Louis. Vampire sex can be many things…

[lighthouseweeper]

and also those who don’t have eyes at all, like Maharet 😂

[chemicalico]

who wanna be friends with drawbacks

[eatthekidsfirst]

friends with consequences

[elliespectacular]

what if one day you picked up your mp3 player and found out someone had put Evil Destiny's Child on there ???

[scribefindegil]

everyone who is not currently in the process of moving please pause and take a moment to be grateful that you're not currently in the process of moving

[drumsolo77]

bring out the

fine china..

[gravityjunior]

Starting a collection

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

the meaning of life? is to make your bedroom as comfy as possible. that's it that's the purpose

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

the secondary purpose is to equip your kitchen and get really really really into international cuisine

[free-my-mindd]

[kingbedlam]

[bikananjarrus]

love everyone contributing to the absolute hoard of dice for emily to roll

+ bonus: some delighted emily faces

[foxdoodles]

the prince of purpee, oregon

[wiiwheel]

In the gay sex dungeon doing my crossword with a coffee, occasionally looking up with mild interest

[izbnart]

Disco Elysium animation 🕺

[smeared1992]

you used to be able to get a job just by circling a listing in a newspaper in red pen

[fleshengine]

if pure helium existed hundreds of years ago there'd be entire subgenres of opera which make specific use of it to reach inhumanly high pitches. Like castrato but gas... gastrato. or something

[drtrinitysantos]

the kids are calling them "stone fruits." they start off small—think cherries. then they're hooked and they need a quick fix, they get peaches, maybe some nectarines. it's all they can think about. before you know it, they're trying the really hard stuff—apricots, plums. once they taste a mango there's no going back.

[what-even-is-thiss]

One of the most common ways you preserve pork without refrigeration is keeping it in really salty water. This makes the pork borderline inedible because it’s so salty. What you don’t see in medieval fantasy is people soaking their meat in water for a bit before they cook it.

That’s also a reason to boil your meat though. Like yeah meat tastes better if you sear it first but sometimes you’ve gotta get that salt out.

[what-even-is-thiss]

You can also smoke your meats and make them into jerky basically. It’s not as juicy as pickling them though.

[what-even-is-thiss]

Also medieval peasants had more meat than you’d think because of these preservation methods. You can feed a pig scraps for the whole year and then butcher it at the start of winter and preserve the meat. Because of this they also often had access to lard.

Medieval peasants also didn’t eat chicken very often. That’s a source of eggs. If you’re lucky enough to own a cow it’s also unlikely you’d eat it unless it’s on its way out anyways. That’s a good source of milk. It’s more advantageous to keep a cow or chicken alive than to eat them.

These days chicken is usually the cheapest form of meat available. If someone is eating a chicken in a medieval setting though it’s either because they didn’t need that chicken anymore or because they’re rich enough to have chickens for eating.

[what-even-is-thiss]

If we’re talking mutton, European sheep are more often kept for wool or milk while middle eastern or African sheep are more often kept for eating. Europeans would of course eat sheep sometimes but it’s another one of those cases where it makes more sense to keep the animal alive rather than eating it.

Fat from a fat tailed sheep makes for good cooking fat if your setting is more middle eastern or North African inspired. European settings would prefer butter, lard, or olive oil depending on where exactly they are.

Goats weren’t super popular in Europe during medieval and ancient times. Very common in the Middle East and North Africa though both for milk and for meat.

[figtreeandvine]

A cow or ewe must have a calf or lamb every year to produce milk. Half of those offspring will be male, and thus will not produce milk. Ergo they were eaten, because you only need one bull or ram for a much larger number of breeding females.

The limiting factor for livestock keeping in the medieval period was winter fodder--there was enough summer grazing for the spring births in fallow fields that they fertilized with their manure , but not enough hay and grazing to get them through the winter. So the lambs--all the males and some of the females--would be butchered in the fall. A bull calf might be butchered as veal (or "baby beef", depending on timing) its first fall or might be over-wintered and butchered as beef the following fall. A few of the older ewes would be butchered as mutton, replaced with female lambs from the spring births. A female calf would be traded, sold, or kept as a replacement.

Similarly, half of the chicks born would be male, destined for spring/early summer butchering. (Or caponed, castrated, though that's much more difficult with a bird.) Chicken is a lean meat, though, and rather tough in a free-range bird, so it was usually stewed rather than roasted. Capon was a bit of a luxury food due to the difficulty of castrating them. Geese were much more popular due to the fattier meat.

Pork was plentiful due in part to the large size of a sow's litter. Over-winter one sow, and you get eight piglets or so, much more than a cow's single calf or a ewe's one to four lambs. Even if you didn't keep your own sow, buying piglets to raise and fatten was common. Most medieval pigs would forage rather than being fed scraps--hence the ubiquity of swineherd as a humble occupation.